Cretesc de Breaza
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1958. From Romania. Stalk very long & slender, young leaves tinged bronze.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 19th May (10%) · 23rd May (full) · 30th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex or almost straight
- Fruit width
- 50-56 mm
- Over colour
- occasional faint orange flush with red streaks
- Russet type
- solid and netted russet at eye, sometimes on body
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 48-56 mm
- Skin texture
- thin, rather tough
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Oblong
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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